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B44
life
Guardian www.guardian.co.tt Thursday, March 20, 2014
For further information please call 675-7034 ext. 240
PUBLIC NOTICE
If so, please be advised
that you must be authorized
by the Tourism Development
Company Limited (TDC)
DISCLAIMER: The Tourism Development Company Limited (TDC), its employees, agents or subcontractors shall not be liable for any injury to
any campers at our facilities or for damage to the property of any campers. Campers must indemnify the TDC and keep the TDC indemnified
against all losses, demands, actions, proceedings, damages, costs or expenses or other liability arising from their use of our facilities.
EASTER CAMPING PACKAGE is Inclusive of:
A designated area for camping activities
A secured parking lot
24-hour use of car park and restroom facilities
24-hour ambulance service
Garbage disposal unit
Lighting towers
Identification bands
Briefing and training session for campers
CAMPING PERMIT FEES:
Standard caution fee of $500.00 per group.
A maximum of five persons per group
Registration fee of $150.00 per person
Fees are for the entire camping period or part thereof
Children under 10 years old are FREE of charge
REGISTRATION:
Registration will take place at the TDC Head Office:
Level 1, Maritime Centre, #29 Tenth Avenue, Barataria
Proof of Identification must accompany each
application form for both adults and children
The deadline for registration is:
Friday 21st March, 2014 at 3:30pm
INFORMATION TO NOTE:
Camping Dates and Times:
12:00pm Thursday April 17th -- 12:00pm Tuesday 22nd, 2014
All fees must be paid in cash
The caution fee is compulsory and will be refunded once
there is no damage/degradation to the facility and the
surrounding areas
The TDC reserves the right to deny admission
No pets allowed
Persons found camping outside of the designated camping
area will be asked to vacate the area immediately
There are a limited number of spots available so book early
Interested in
Camping at Maracas or
Las Cuevas Beach
for the Easter
Weekend?
In an effort to decrease the negative environme
persons to participate in its Regulated Camping
Children whose mothers pay close attention to
how much time they spend watching TV and playing
video games tend to weigh less, according to a new
study.
Researchers found that mothers who were more
active in their media supervision had children who
were thinner at age seven and who gained less weight
over the next few years.
"At this point we can say there is an association
but we cannot say exactly why," Stacey Tiberio, the
study s lead author from the Oregon Social Learning
Center in Eugene, told Reuters Health.
For example, she said the results could be due to
vigilant mothers encouraging their children to be more
active instead of letting them watch TV.
It could also be that their kids aren t spending as
much time being exposed to food advertisements.
The researchers write in JAMA Pediatrics that under-
standing the role of parental media monitoring is
crucial in the development of obesity programmes
and interventions.
For the new study, they used data from 112 mothers,
103 fathers and their 213 children.
Parents and children answered questionnaires, were
interviewed and received physicals when the kids were
five, seven and nine-years-old. The data were collected
between 1998 and 2012.
The researchers found that when mothers reported
spending less time monitoring their kids media con-
sumption, kids tended be heavier at seven years old.
What s more, less aggressive media monitoring by
mothers was tied to more irregular weights among
children over the entire study period.
Monitoring by fathers was not tied to changes in
weight.
Tiberio said that may be because mothers tend to
be children s primary caregiver.
She also cautioned that these are only the results
of one study.
But she said showing a link between TV monitoring
and weight in this group is important, because early
adolescence tends to be a crucial point for many people
weight-wise.
"It s basically a one-way door," Tiberio said. "If
you are obese by middle childhood, you have an
increased likelihood of staying in that group."
Jennifer Falbe, who was not involved with the new
research but has studied screen time and its connection
to weight, told Reuters Health the new study supports
current recommendations.
"What they found is consistent with the American
Academy of Pediatrics recommendation to limit chil-
dren s total screen time to no more than one to two
hours per day of high quality content," she said.
Falbe is a researcher at the University of California,
Berkeley School of Public Health.
"Parents should keep TV sets and other electronic
media out of children s bedrooms," she said. "Research
has also indicated that parents own TV viewing habits
can influence their children.
"In addition to limiting their children s screen time,
it s also important to set a good example."
(Reuters Health)
Mothers'
monitoring of
media tied
to kids' weight
YOUR DAILY HEALTH
News and advice
Researchers
found that
when mothers
reported
spending less
time monitoring
their kids'
media
consumption,
kids tended be
heavier at seven
years old.